Not to beat the issue to death (again) but I was scratching my head and everywhere else wondering why I never have issues with oil filters except on my GS and then my RS. And I was only having issues...

NC, 2002: rode into lightning storm on Brown Mountain with son and two friends. Stopped, parked, huddled, took five jolts of stray voltage over ten minutes or so.. On shot split an 18" tree trunk my...

first, it is really short after riding a 990. Second, for such a petite-looking bike, the slow speed handling is truly ponderous, but once it gets above parking lot speed, it rides like its on rails....